Basketball Team sponsored by Hope Mission in 1926. Eight young African American men stand posed for a photograph. All are wearing athletic uniforms of dark shorts and sleeveless white jerseys with "Hope" on the front. A young man near the middle...

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University of Louisville basketball coach Bernard "Peck" Hickman held aloft by players John Turner and George Burnett following a victory at the mideast regionals of the 1959 National Collegiate Athletic Association basketball tournament, held in...

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University of Louisville basketball athlete Jack Coleman (right) stands with another player, both holding suitcases. A third man stands with them holding a microphone. Coleman led U of L to its first national basketball title, the 1948 National...

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Basketball coach Herman "Peck" Hickman in an exaggerated pose playing pinball. Three young men are looking on. One young man, who may be basketball player James Edwards, is wearing a hat and a "letter" jacket with an L on it. This image is from a...

A series of six group portraits of women's basketball teams, taken inside a gym wearing their basketball uniforms. Teams uniforms are for Ewings, West Louisville, A T G U, and 4th Avenue. Two other teams have the letters "M" and "F" on their...

A series of five group portraits of white women's basketball teams, taken inside a gym wearing their basketball uniforms. Teams represented at Standard Sanitary Manufacturing Company, Eppings, and Diamond Cab. One team has the letter B on their...

A series of five group portraits of white men's basketball teams, taken inside a gym wearing their basketball uniforms. Teams include Manual Inn A C, Goldberg's 4th & Mkt., Temple Cleaners, Oaks, and KY.

A series of six group portraits of white men's basketball teams, taken inside a gym wearing their basketball uniforms. Teams include Courier Journal & Times, Standard Sanitary Manufacturing Co., Aetna Oil, Western Electric, Ewings, and Wood Mosaic...

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Three University of Louisville basketball players at a pinball machine. One of them has his hands on the flipper buttons and there is a basketball on top of the machine. This image was taken during the team's trip south to play the University of...

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Rear view of a firetruck bearing members of the University of Louisville basketball team. A large hose is connected to the rear of the vehicle. A group of people are standing near a fence in the background, and an individual on a motorcycle rides...

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University of Louisville basketball standout Charles Tyra facing several men. One man holds a microphone near Tyra. Behind Tyra is an American Airlines airplane. This photograph was taken at Standiford Field, Louisville, Kentucky, on the return of...

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Coach Bernard "Peck" Hickman stands with a basketball player (#9), who holds a trophy. This image is from the mideast regionals of the 1959 National Collegiate Athletic Association basketball tournament, held in Evanston, Illinois. University of...

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Members of the University of Louisville basketball team and adult staff standing near a hotel swimming pool in Los Angeles, California. There is a diving board on the right side, and one man holds on to a ladder and leans over the water. Most of...

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Members of the University of Louisville basketball team and others playing cards in an airplane. Several men are gathered in the aisle of the airplane to watch. This image is from a trip the University of Louisville basketball team took to the...

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Four men in a restaurant booth (this appears to be in the Brown Derby restaurant in Los Angeles, California). There are two younger men, one of whom is holding a telephone receiver to his ear. The younger men are members of the University of...

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Basketball team members at the Brown Derby restaurant, Los Angeles, California. The players are seated in a booth with Joan Leslie, their "official hostess." From left to right, seated: Glenn Combs, Kenny Reeves, Bob Brown, Joan Leslie, Bob...

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Basketball team members and others with a woman believed to be June Allyson. The woman in dark gloves may be Joan Leslie, the team's "official hostess." This appears to have been shot on the set of the film "Right Cross." One man holds a boxer's...

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Two basketball players in mid-air during University of Louisville - Western Kentucky game played January 11, 1950; other players are seen running toward the two players in the foreground. This may be an image of Glenn "Ish" Combs fouling Western...

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University of Louisville basketball team members and others, including coach "Peck" Hickman stand on stairway in Loews Theater, Louisville, Kentucky. Other information indicates that the team was there to see the movie "Right Cross"; information...